Three London Theatres of Shakespeare's Time \J 



present day did reade them both, & tolde the def 1 the effect there- 

 of, And this depon 1 & also the said compl 1 did tender to the saide 

 def 1 an Indenture drawne & engrossed according to the said 

 order \v th wax ready put thereynto requiring the def 1 to seale the 

 same, but he refused so to doe 



Joh: Pen keth man 



Court of Requests Proceedings, Uncalendcrcd, James I. 

 [1620.] 



woodford's bill. 



[Upper left and right portions of Bill decayed, and small parts gone. 

 A few words illegible, and the entire Bill difficult to read. Often the 

 ink is gone, and only its impress in the parchment remains, which can 

 still be read with the aid of good light and a magnifying glass.] 



[Date of filing, in dorso,] xxxj die [Martij] Anno R Regis Iacobi 

 Anglie ffranc et hibrrne xvij° et Scotie lij d0 ./ 

 Vocetur defend per nuntium Camere./ 



To the Kinges most 

 Excellent Ma : tie 

 [Humblie] Complayninge sheweth vnto yo r most excellent Ma : tie 

 yo r humble and faythfull Subiecte and Complain' Thomas Wood- 

 ford of Southwarke in the countie of Surry gentleman that 

 wheras one Aron Holland of the parish [of St James] Clerken- 

 well in the Countie of Middlesex yoman was lawfullie possessed 

 of and in one messuage or tenemente with thappurtena/mces 

 [Com]onlie called and knowne by the name of the Redd Bull 

 scituate in the parish of S l [James] Clerkenwell aforesaid by 

 force of a lease therof for manie yeares yet induringe to him 

 therof made by Anne Beddingfeild late wyeffe and administra- 

 trix of the goods and Chattels of Cristofer(?) Bedding- 

 feild deceased and he the said Aron [soe being] e therof pos- 

 sessed did afterwards erecte builde and sett vpp in and vpon 

 some parte of the same messuage or tenement diu<?rs and sundry 

 buildings and gallerfies w ch he afterwardes] leased for a play- 

 house [for acting] and [settinge] forthe of playes comedies and 

 tragedfies] or to doe other exercises at and in the same. After 

 w ch he the same Aron Holland soe beinge possessed as aforesaid 



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